Throughout the world, climate change adaptation policies supported by the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have provided significant sources of …

The article explores the moments wherein participatory approaches in climate change
adaptation (CCA) policies contribute to reinforcing, rather than transforming, the underlying …

The 'socioenvironmental state'conceptualisation probes how contested, shifting, emergent
boundaries of the state contain the possibilities for transformative change in the …

Why should a parcel of agricultural land be abandoned when there is a scarcity of food? In
this paper, we address this question in relation to the hills of Nepal, where agricultural land …

This research assumes that various forms and scales of lockdowns and social distancing
measures have limited local decision-makers' ability to reach out to communities as part of …

Many policies on disaster governance and community resilience aim at enhancing justice
outcomes at the local community level. In so doing, they tend to focus on equal distribution of …

Bringing together ethnographic evidence from mid-Western Nepal and eastern Sri Lanka,
this article explores how political legitimacy is constructed and contested in post-war …

One of the most important political transitions to occur in South Asia in recent decades was
the ouster of Nepal's monarchy in 2006 and the institution of a democratic secular republic in …

Motivation Nepal adopted a federal constitution in 2015 that created autonomous local
governments across the country. A prime aim was to encourage ordinary people's …

Questions of state formation and public authority have been at the top of the development
and political agenda in Nepal since 2006. The post-2006 so-called 'political transition'has …